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Have you pulled all of your hair out yet over these lunatics??? Between epileptics who don't take their meds and AA members who drink, I've gone bald from pulling my hair out this past week, and I'm not even the doctor seeing the patients!

Seriously - are all your stories daily happenings or have you stored them up over the years?? You're like a John Davidson or Fran Tarkenton (or maybe Cathy-Lee Crosby..) of the 80's 'Thats Incredible' fame of medical blogs....or do you just live in a very special city??! Your client/patients are unbelievable! (Thank you USA for providing smalltown New Zealand a morning giggle over coffee xxxP.S Perhaps you need to be given one of those silver 'Thats Incredible' jackets they used to give away for freaky stories..! (Do you remember that show - or what is shipped straight overseas to gullible little counties like us here in NZ???)

I'm the old retired nurse. I don't know if I should scream, cry, laugh or just walk away in despair.... when some people tell me that they share their pills with a friend..."Because the way she talks, she has the same problems than I have, the poor girl!"

Haha...probably best not to trust patients with prescriptions. If its called or faxed into a pharmacy at least if they forget to pick it up, the pharmacy will call them when it has sat on the shelf for 10 days to tell them to pick it up or its going back to stock.

I loved That's Incredible! What I wouldn't have given for one of those shiny jackets...My husband went from Depakote to Keppra- no wiggle room with the Keppra (pardon the pun). Miss one dose, maybe two, and it's seizure city! So he is very good about keeping it stocked. We start new insurance with a high deductible in June. I have no idea how we are going to cough up $400 a shot for that scrip until the deductible is met. blech!

@PharmJam - at least one of my doctors now emails my scrips in as a matter of course. I was delighted! Of course, I keep my scrips in one place and turn them into my pharmacy as soon as I'm done at the doctor's office but still...

"So you're in the ER today because you had a seizure. You have a known history of seizures, this seizure was the same as all the others, your family was in the room and made sure you didn't hit your head... and you haven't taken your meds in weeks, and now you want me to fix it."

Welcome to my whining!

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